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Appeals Court Validates Google's Mammoth Books Project
"The appeals court recognized that the Google search engine "creates new forms of research, such as text mining and data mining," said Ben Depoor…
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Study: Government Privacy Programs Lack Sufficient Resources
"Seventy percent of government programs report less than sufficient budgets to meet their privacy needs, according to a recently released study from the In…
Lawful Hacking After the Encryption Debate
The Obama administration has apparently decided not to support exceptional access proposals that would provide law enforcement with the means to access data on…
Here’s why the Iraq War may have helped trigger the financial crisis
Thomas Oatley is the author of “The Political Economy of American Hegemony: Booms, Buildups and Busts.” His book argues that when America goes to war it borrows…
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Federal judge shines a spotlight on the “going dark” debate
Last Friday, a New York federal judge joined in the contentious current debate over whether tech companies should be forced to provide law enforcement the abili…
New EU Law Will Tell U.S. What Can Be Said — And Built — On the Internet
Americans have long been ignoring European data protection law, but it has not been ignoring us. Last year’s so-called “right to be forgotten” case from the EU’…
Opinion: Why we all have a stake in encryption policy
In William Gibson's latest novel, "The Peripheral," he imagines a future in which people have the ability to effortlessly encrypt spoken conversat…
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California AG goes all-out to fight “revenge porn”
"Also speaking at the press conference was Danielle Citron, a law professor at University of Maryland who has interviewed more than 50 exploitation victims…
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Opinion: Why we all have a stake in encryption policy
"Which brings me to University of Washington School of Law assistant professor Ryan Calo's recent article. He argues that tech giants Apple and Google,…
Edward Snowden has proposed a new treaty. Here’s why it might or might not take off.
At the Council for Foreign Relations Web site, David Fidler says that Edward Snowden isn’t radical enough. He identifies three problems with the proposal that S…
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The Battle for “Nice”
"Woodrow Hartzog, an associate professor at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law, whose focus includes intellectual property law, says that the fe…
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Empirical Evidence of “Over-Removal” by Internet Companies under Intermediary Liability Laws
NOTE: I periodically update this post. Last update was May 8, 2020. The "Over-Removal" Issue Most intermediaries offer legal “Notice and Takedown”…